Let the Million Flowers Bloom by William Rivers Pitt

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/8154-let-the-million-flowers-bloom

Let me get this straight.

The Occupy protesters arrested in Zuccotti Park on March 17th were pressured to give retinal scans to the authorities - retinal scans! - by the same police that spied on and infiltrated peaceful liberal/progressive organizations, while the mayor broke bread with the worst of the Wall Street thieves. Meanwhile, a new NSA facility designed specifically to collect comprehensive information on every American comes to light, at almost the same time as a battery of "new rules" are unveiled that open the informational floodgates.

Oh, P.S., municipalities are actively seeking any and all leftovers from the ten years America spent in Iraq. Humvees, night-vision goggles, weapons...hell, whatever. "1.5 million pieces of equipment have already been shipped out of Iraq over the last year," says the report, "and nearly 900,000 remain."

The crushing of dissent, the official identification of dissenters, the vast expansion of federal power, and the hyper-arming of local authorities.

Nothing to worry about, right?